Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.

Somehow I am necessary for His purposes, as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his.